Spiders and dance aren’t usually talked about in the same sentence.
However, one dancer from Kiev, Ukraine changed that forever.
Her name is Milena Sidorova and she has made dancing a huge part of her life.
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And because she’s always been fascinated by spiders, Milena decided that she was going to combine this fascination with her love of dance.
In the video below, you can watch the dance that racked up almost 15 million views on YouTube.
Milena starts her dance in her spider pose–body, arms, and legs all close to the floor.
By moving each individual leg and arm as if they actually belonged to a spider, Milena creates a very cool and unique-looking dance style.
Eventually, she rises up from all fours and dances around on two legs, making sure to keep her hands and arms in those positions that mimic a spider.
She jumps and spins and kicks her legs, freely moving around the stage.
There’s no doubt that Milena has mastered this spider dance that she has come up with.
This comes as no surprise when you find out that Milena actually came up with this dance when she was only 13 years old.
“As a kid, I really loved spiders and I used to observe them a lot. They had this particular way of moving and were still very gracious creatures, although a bit weird. When I studied ballet professionally, I once tried to imitate the movements of a spider in the living room — which made my mother laugh a lot. She said: “Hey, why don’t you make that into a dance?”’
Although her mom could have been joking with that last comment, it’s a good thing that Milena took her seriously.
All these years later, and Milena’s spider dance is nothing short of spectacular and intriguing.
And it’s not like jumping around on stage, impersonating a spider is that easy to do.
When asked of the dance was hard, Milena had this to say:
“Yes. Not necessarily because it requires advanced technical skills, but the spider pose requires a certain flexibility in your hips and lower back that even most professional dancers do not possess.”
So in a way, it’s like Milena was made to do this dance.
She happened to possess certain flexibility that most of us could never even dream of having.
However, plenty of stretching and practice must also be completed in order for Milena to pull off her awesome spider poses.
Milena is a great example of someone who took one of her passions and excelled at it by adding to it a unique quality about herself.
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Although we can’t all flex our bodies into strange spider poses, we do have the ability to take our unique strengths and turn them into something amazing.
There is only one of you after all, and you’d be letting the rest of us down by not showing us how special you really are.
Check out the video below to see the dance that caught nearly 15 million people’s attention and be sure to share it with a friend!
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